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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

confession
confide
confided
CONFIDENCE   occurs   36 times 16 in BB  •  20 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
confident
confidential
confiding

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1.
  ... confidence.  BB Bill's Story, p.14
There was utter confidence.


2.
  ... confidence.  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
Though experience had made him skeptical, he finished his treatment with unusual confidence.


3.
  ... confidence.  BB Into Action, p.75
Most people approached in this way will be glad to help; they will be honored by our confidence.


4.
  ... confidence.  BB To Wives, p.114
We make this recommendation with some confidence.


5.
  ... confidence.  12&12 Contents (Step Four), p.6
Willingness to take inventory brings light and new confidence.


6.
  ... confidence.  12&12 Step One, p.22
We had approached A.A. expecting to be taught self-confidence.


7.
  ... confidence and comfort in the laughter and ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
We can be the ones who take on the unspectacular but important tasks that make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps arranging for the coffee and cake after the meetings, where so many skeptical, suspicious newcomers have found confidence and comfort in the laughter and talk.


8.
  ... confidence and faith in these people who ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Can we have the same kind of confidence and faith in these people who have been infected and sometimes crippled by our own illness that we have in our sponsors?


9.
  ... confidence and fill me with conflict?  12&12 Step Four, p.51
Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence and fill me with conflict?


10.
  ... confidence began to be replaced by cocksureness.  BB Bill's Story, pp.5-6
Some time passed, and confidence began to be replaced by cocksureness.


11.
  ... confidence, but it didn't fully solve the ...  BB How It Works, p.68
Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it didn't fully solve the fear problem, or any other.


12.
  ... confidence, can you adopt the attitude that ...  BB To Employers, p.143
While on the subject of confidence, can you adopt the attitude that so far as you are concerned this will be a strictly personal matter, that his alcoholic derelictions, the treatment about to be undertaken, will never be discussed without his consent?


13.
  ... confidence, he felt it right to explain ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
As he gained confidence, he felt it right to explain his new way of life to his employer and business associates.


14.
  ... confidence how helpful he can really be, ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
When your mission is carefully explained, and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.


15.
  ... confidence in dad is rising high.  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
Family confidence in dad is rising high.


16.
  ... confidence in him, and his temperament and ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
If you have developed a high confidence in him, and his temperament and problems are close to your own, then such a choice will be good.


17.
  ... confidence in his ability to recover?  BB To Employers, p.143
Can you have every confidence in his ability to recover?


18.
  ... confidence in his power to stop or ...  BB To Wives, p.112
Show him you have confidence in his power to stop or moderate.


19.
  ... confidence in our ability to think?  BB We Agnostics, p.54
Did we not have confidence in our ability to think?


20.
  ... confidence in our anonymity promise was severe.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
When such stories got into circulation outside of A.A., the loss of confidence in our anonymity promise was severe.


21.
  ... confidence in our future.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
It is A.A.'s proved willingness to make these sacrifices that gives people their high confidence in our future.


22.
  ... confidence in the integrity of Alcoholics Anonymous.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.165
Approving editorials here and abroad generated a wave of confidence in the integrity of Alcoholics Anonymous.


23.
  ... confidence in the one with whom you ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first accurate self-survey.


24.
  ... confidence is born, and the sense of ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable.


25.
  ... confidence; it was the child of our ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
But in the beginning, anonymity was not born of confidence; it was the child of our early fears.


26.
  ... confidence laid the explosive facts in their ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
The oldest member summoned two others, and in confidence laid the explosive facts in their laps.


27.
  ... confidence of another alcoholic in a few ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours.


28.
  ... confidence; that he fully understand and approve ...  BB Into Action, p.74
It is important that he be able to keep a confidence; that he fully understand and approve what we are driving at; that he will not try to change our plan.


29.
  ... confidence that he is at last on ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Having found the shoes that fit, he ought to step into them and walk with new confidence that he is at last on the right track.


30.
  ... confidence, their reliance upon things human, their ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.


31.
  ... confidence to another person, but we are ...  BB Into Action, p.78
We have already admitted this in confidence to another person, but we are sure we would be imprisoned or lose our job if it were known.


32.
  ... confidence was no good whatever; in fact, ...  12&12 Step One, p.22
Then we had been told that so far as alcohol is concerned, self-confidence was no good whatever; in fact, it was a total liability.


33.
  ... confidence we had admitted these things to ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
It had been embarrassing enough when in confidence we had admitted these things to God, to ourselves, and to another human being.


34.
  ... confidence, we were apt to play the ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Thus blinded by prideful self-confidence, we were apt to play the big shot.


35.
  ... confidence when others fail.  BB Working With Others, p.89
You can secure their confidence when others fail.


36.
  ... confidence would be shaken.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.165
The moment that happened, our Fellowship's confidence would be shaken.


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